Wedding Card

Tomorrow I'm off to a friends' wedding and this is the card I made for them....

The text was done on my Craft Robo, I inserted a pink gel pen instead of the cutting blade and it's very glittery and rather pretty!  The oval in the middle is actually cut out but it looks like it's been stuck on top - in fact that would probably be easier next time!  I can't remember who the stamp is by but I stamped it a few times on different colours and the wedding dress is decoupaged, but that doesn't really show in this photo.

I hope the happy couple like it x

New Sexy Title

I would like to thank Clair from Valentines for my lovely new sexy title of my blog above.  I have no idea how she did it, but she just sent it to me, saying she hoped I did't mind.  Mind?  Of course not, , I'm so chuffed, I love it - Thank you Clair x

Valentines Colour Combo Challenge #4

I have been very busy this week but hopefully managed to get my Colour Combo Challenge submitted by the skin of my teeth!  This week the colours were Bashful Blue, So Saffron and Certainly Celery, so I headed off to my card stock stash and hopefully picked out the right colours.  I also fortunately had a couple of the matching ink pads to go with it, then the hard part began, thinking up something to make, and this is what I came up with.....

On the background paper I used a Stampin' Up Jumbo wheel, I think it's called "It's Beautiful" which I used all over the Certainly Celery, but I think the ink cartridge loaded into it is actually  Old Olive, but you probably wouldn't' have known that if I hadn't just admitted it!  The two pieces of Bashful Blue and So Saffron are stamped using the SU Greenhouse Garden two-stage stamp set, although I only used one of the stamps and then mounted onto some SU patterned paper with some ribbon wrapped round.  I used Penny Black "Hedgehog Kisses" and mounted using foam tape and the greeting stamp is a mini clear stamp by KaiserCraf. I stamped a small flower in black as that space looked like it was missing something, the flower stamp is from the same Greenhouse Garden set as the other flower stamp.

Hope you like it x

Birthday Card

I made this card last week for a friends' birthday but didn't post it until I'd given it to her, just in case she saw it on here first!  Hopefully she's actually opened the card by now, even though her birthday isn't until next week.

Here is the card....

This is a 6 x 6" card and I used the Cricut Heritage cartridge and the Elegant Edges Cricut cartridges, I inked the edges with Tim Holtz tea dye distress ink and adorned it with some bling and a ribbon, I think it turned our rather elegant!

Play Time

I've had a chance to get into my craft room and ended up playing with my Cricut Sesame Street cartridge which I absolutely love.  I've made these cards before but they're so cute and ever so easy to make and they can be used for children or last minute, because I've forgotten cards for almost anyone, even men.

Hope you like them

X

Valentines Colour Combo Challenge #3

I can't believe I actually forgot about this weekly challenge! I just happen to see Valentine's website and saw it, so I hot footed it into my craft room and dragged out my stash of Stampin' Up card stock and pulled out sheets of Old Olive, Night of Navy and More Mustard, well, at least I hope those are the colours I pulled out as they're not labelled!

Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the stamp I used, but if I remember, I'll look it up and amend this post!  I also used my Cricut Elegant Edges (no surprise there!) and did the frame, also matching the inside of the card with the same frame.























Hope you like it

x

Baby Card

I've been very lucky this weekend, I managed to get into my craft room again today which was fortunate as I remembered I needed to make a new baby card for a work colleague.  I cheated a little bit as I used my computer to print the background with the baby details and then reached for my New Arrivals Cricut cartridge to do the baby.  The baby's face is stamped using a Peachy Keen Everyday Faces stamp and is mounted on an action wobble so when you flick it, it wobbles all over the place, they're great.

I loved it so much that I made another two, another blue one but just with the words "Baby boy" instead of the baby details and anther blank one in pink....

These cards are so simple to make, but I hope effective too.  Hope you like them x

Play Time

Having had the wonderful opportunity of spending the afternoon in my craft room, I started playing with  a piece of brown Stampin' Up card stock that I cut in half which meant I now had two card blanks, so it would be rude not to make two cards!

In this first card I used the Notably Ornate Stampin' Up stamp set edged in Tim Holtz tea dyed ink, mounted onto the same colour card.  It was wrapped with two layers on ribbons and mounted upon a double sided piece of Stampin' Up paper pack and embellished with some twine and pink pearls.  Also embellished with the "Just Because" stamp mounted on the same paper as the background paper.

The second card I made is also the same size and using the other piece of brown Stampin' Up card stock, I made this card....

It was mounted upon some pink card stock and then I used a patterned paper from a Dovecraft paper pack.  The cake and  cake stand (which unfortunately can hardly bee seen in this photo) were cut from the Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge.  The flowers were cut and highlighted with a white highlighter and the centres were embellished with glossy accents and the middle layer of the cake was wrapped in a pink organza ribbon.

I have started on a few more cards, so you may be unfortunate enough to be subjected to those too very shortly.

Thank you for looking x

Valentines Colour Combo Challenge #2

This is my entry for this weeks Valentines Colour Combo Challenge, the challenge was to use the colours  Real Red, Baja Breeze and Crumb Cake.  I have no idea if I have used the correct colours, but I picked three colours which seemed to fit the bill out of my Stampin' Up stash and headed for my craft room.

The Stamp is from Katy Sue Designs and is called "Wine Buffs".  To be honest, i'm not convinced about this card so feel free to let me know what you think.

Football Fan Birthday Card

As I was leaving work last night my boss asked me if I could bring in a birthday card this morning for a colleague's birthday, this would not normally be a problem, but last night I was going out (to my craft class) so I had about half an hour to make something. As you fellow crafters know, designing a card takes way longer than actually putting it together, so I reached for my trusted Cricut (you will quickly notice this is a recurring theme, I just love my Cricut, it's an amazing machine!) and using my "Boys Will Be Boys" cartridge I made this football card.

Unfortunately, yes, Cricut is made by an American company and therefore they insist on calling football soccer, not ideal but I was on the clock.  The top part of the card, i.e., the football and the word is actually mounted on an 'action wobble' so the top part wobbles.  The card is a deckle edged 8" x 8" as I had to make it big enough for everyone at work to sign.  I stamped the inside with "it's your birthday, whether you like it or not!"

I hope you like it and feel free to leave me your views! Thanks for looking x